Document: Report to Congress on North Korea Nuclear Challenge
November 7, 2017 11:40 AM
The following is the Oct. 27, 2017 Congressional Research Service report, The North Korean Nuclear Challenge: Military Options and Issues for Congress.
From the Report
North Korea’s apparently successful July 2017 tests of its intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities, along with the possibility that North Korea (DPRK) may have successfully miniaturized a nuclear warhead, have led analysts and policymakers to conclude that the window for preventing the DPRK from acquiring a nuclear missile capable of reaching the United States is closing. These events appear to have fundamentally altered U.S. perceptions of the threat the Kim Jong-un regime poses to the continental United States and the international community, and escalated the standoff on the Korean Peninsula to levels that have arguably not been seen since 1994.
https://news.usni.org/2017/11/07/document-report-congress-north-korea-nuclear-challenge
